College Hill Music Studio

Making Music is one of the greatest joys in life! Learn its language, explore its colors, feel its rhythm, make it your own. Create, improvise, play, read, and enjoy music for a lifetime!
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A great overview of our teaching approach! Thank you Felicity!

MLT Piano Lessons: Music Moves for Piano Information Video for Parents and CaregiversWritten and spoken by Felicity BreenSuggested Websites:Lowe, M., Music Moves for Piano website https://www.musicm...

Molly Ban - Mixolydian tonality (mode)

The Chieftains & Alison Krauss - Molly Ban The Chieftains & Alison Krauss - Molly Ban

This song is in Lydian tonality.

Grieg: Peer Gynt, Op. 23 - Dance of the mountain king's daughter Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupGrieg: Peer Gynt, Op. 23 - Dance of the mountain king's daughter · San Francisco Symphony · San Francisco Symphon...

Just as we learn to identify colors by making comparisons, our tonal audiation (i.e., inner hearing and understanding of musical syntax) is greatly enhanced when we are exposed to a variety of tonalities (traditionally referred to as “modes”). If we only hear and sing in major tonality, we won’t have as rich an understanding of what “major” truly is as we would if we heard many other tonalities with which to compare it.
Although most traditional music theory textbooks define tonalities/modes simply as the white keys on the piano between any two octaves (e.g. Dorian is the white keys from D to D on the piano), tonalities/modes are more about the relationship of pitches around the tonal center. “Heather Shouldice – Everyday Musicality”

“Making comparisons, knowing what something is not helps us to know what it is…. Imagine a whole world in which everything were purple: purple sky, purple water, purple grass and trees, purple food, everything. anything purple? Would we even coin the word ‘purple’? No, we wouldn’t need it. But imagine, in all that purple, you came across a single yellow flower…. All of a sudden, yellow and purple have meaning. What is purple? Everything that isn’t yellow. And now imagine a multicolored world in which our understanding of purple is dramatically more precise because we now have so much more to compare it with.”
– ERIC BLUESTINE IN THE WAYS CHILDREN LEARN MUSIC (P. 69)

"All human beings are born with the potential to be musical, and our lives are enriched through musical engagement. We may not all end up professional musicians, but we can all enjoy engaging with and making music in our daily lives. The purpose of this website is to contribute to the conversation about music learning, music teaching, and music education research and to apply
these ideas in practical ways, with the goal of helping people to have more positive and fulfilling musical experiences in their day-to-day lives."

Heather Nelson Shouldice, PhD

Everyday Musicality Music for everyone, every day.